Device for detachably securing rubber heels to boots and shoes.



PATENTED JAN. 30, 1906. N. P. BOLIN. URING RUBBER HEELS TO BOOTS AND SHOES.

DEVICE FOR DEIAGHABLY SEO APPLICATION FILED AUG. 31, 1904.

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2. A heel-section for aboot or shoe having a plate embedded therein with the side edges bent to present guideways, vcombined with a companion plate carrying a plurallty of prongs, secured to the bottom of the boot or shoe, same adapted to be slidably engaged by the first-mentionedplate, and having laterally-extending projections or stops to limit a the movement of the last-mentioned plate in 'a plate embedded therein with one direction. 1

3. A heel-section for a boot or shoe having its side edges bent to present guideways, combined With a companion plate carrying a plurality of prongs, secured to the bottom of the boot, same-adapted to be slidably engaged by the first-mentioned plate, each of said plates having being bifurcated, two opposing branches of the bifurcation being yieldably interlocked, and the other two opposing branchesbeing outwardly divergent to present an opening for the reception of an implement to separate the interlocked branches.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

NILS P. BOLIN. Witnesses:

JOHN H. GoRnoN, WILLIAM G. SMITH.

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